Texas HHSC Home and Community-Based Services — Adult Mental Health Open Enrollment HHS0016567

Texas HHSC is accepting provider applications through August 31, 2029 at 5:00 PM CDT for the HCBS-AMH program, a statewide contract pathway serving adults with serious mental illness and histories of long-term psychiatric hospitalization, frequent arrest/crisis, or frequent emergency-department/crisis use.

FundingOpen-enrollment provider contract; Medicaid/service reimbursement pathway; no fixed grant award amount published

DeadlineAugust 31, 2029 at 5:00 PM CDT

Last verifiedSeptember 19, 2026

Required next actionQualified Texas behavioral-health organizations should review the current HHS0016567 open-enrollment package and Appendix A checklist, confirm active TMHP provider enrollment and an active NPI, determine whether they are applying as a Provider Agency, Recovery Management Entity, or both, document all role-specific experience, licensure, staffing, insurance, service-region/location and other required qualifications, and submit the complete searchable-PDF application package to the HHSC Behavioral Health Medicaid Programs Contracts Unit before the deadline. Do not assume technology purchases are separately reimbursable without HHSC confirmation.

Broad Eligibility

Qualified Texas organizations must meet the HHS0016567 minimum qualifications for the role sought. All applicants must be actively enrolled as providers with the Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP), have and maintain an active National Provider Identifier (NPI), satisfy applicable dual-program contract restrictions, and meet the Provider Agency or Recovery Management Entity experience, licensure, staffing, Texas-presence, insurance, and other OE requirements.

Atlas Analysis

Open enrollment is active. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is accepting applications under HHS0016567 to establish provider contracts for the Home and Community-Based Services — Adult Mental Health (HCBS-AMH) program.

Submission deadline: August 31, 2029 at 5:00 PM CDT. This is a long-duration open-enrollment contract pathway rather than a one-time competitive grant.

Who the program serves: adults with a diagnosis of serious mental illness who also have a history of at least one of the following: long-term psychiatric hospitalization, frequent arrests with psychiatric crisis, or frequent emergency-department visits with psychiatric crisis.

Provider pathway: HHSC uses HCBS-AMH provider agencies and recovery-management entities to deliver individualized community-based services intended to support long-term recovery and successful community tenure. HHSC provider guidance states that the same agency may apply for both provider-agency and recovery-management roles, subject to federal separation-of-function requirements for a participant. All applicants must already be actively enrolled as providers with the Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) and have an active National Provider Identifier (NPI) before applying, and must maintain both throughout the contract term.

Atlas Opportunity Score: 90/100. This is a durable statewide behavioral-health contracting lane with significant value for qualified provider organizations seeking to serve adults with high-acuity serious mental illness outside institutional settings.

N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 30/100. This procurement contracts for HCBS-AMH service delivery, not a standalone clinical-technology purchase. Atlas should not represent N9+ hardware or platform costs as directly fundable unless an awarded provider can document an allowable, contract-compliant role within approved services and HHSC confirms the cost treatment.

Official source: Texas HHS Open Enrollment HHS0016567.